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Conan O'Brien, tech critic
The Oscars host mined Hollywood's unease with Silicon Valley. Plus, BuzzFeed nears bankruptcy after its pivot to AI, China's exploding gig economy, and…
Mar 18
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"If AI is writing the work and AI is reading the work, do we even need to be there at all?" Educators reveal a growing crisis on campus and…
AI Killed My Job: Educators.
Mar 13
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Warning Signs
What drives the men who make--and abuse--AI?
Mar 5
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Emily J. Smith
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The most aggressively anti-AI film of the ChatGPT era
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die takes a big swing at AI. Does it connect?
Mar 1
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February 2026
Actually, the left is winning the AI debate
But it does need to get organized.
Feb 26
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Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras
Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. PLUS: 10,000 drivers call on Uber to repay stolen wages, a man is arrested at…
Feb 20
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Five takeaways from an unhinged AI discourse
What's behind the feverish AI discourse? Who thinks "AI is fake"? Is "the left" wrong to dismiss AI? Is that even what's happening? What's really going…
Feb 18
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Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace as 1,200 employees call on the company to cut ties
The search giant has made it harder and riskier to protest its policies. Workers are still fighting back. Plus: A community takes down a data center…
Feb 12
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How Jeff Bezos and Amazon became instruments of authoritarianism
And how to stop them
Feb 6
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Brian Merchant
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January 2026
On the smokescreen of AGI, and fighting for workers in the age of Trump and the tech oligarchy
Plus, protestors demand Amazon ditch its ICE contracts on the national day of protest.
Jan 30
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The lines have been drawn
Silicon Valley must decide which side it's on
Jan 26
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What Trump really wants with AI
Trump's AI agenda is often described as a push for deregulation; an effort to cut red tape so AI companies can innovate. In truth, it's a big government…
Jan 23
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Brian Merchant
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